Elon Musk says Twitter’s lack of info on bots breaches merger deal

Musk said he thinks Twitter is breaching their agreement by not meeting his demands for more information about spam and fake accounts. — AFP

Elon Musk formally and forcefully revived his assertion that Twitter Inc has a serious bot problem, and threatened to walk away from his deal to buy the company if the social network doesn’t do more to prove its users are real people.

Legal experts widely speculated that Musk is using the bot issue as an excuse to abandon or renegotiate the deal, which has looked better and better for Twitter as the broader stock market has taken a dive in recent weeks.